KC Chalk and Walk coming up next month at Crown Center

The multicultural street-painting fair known as the Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival is coming to Crown Center Square next month.

The free, two-day event will run from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 6, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 7.

Professional, amateur, student and regional artists will use chalk pastels to create colorful masterpieces in a process imitating the 16th century Italian style of Madonnari painting.

And for the first time in its seven-year history, the festival will include nationally and internationally known 3D artists — as well as a master’s chalk muralist who will reproduce a mural in honor of Thomas Hart Benton.